Quotes About Mind

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Your imagination has much to do with your life.... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.